Authors: Jason Eichorst & Nick Lin
Software: R 3.3.2; Stata 15 
Date: 24 November 2017
Title: Resist to Commit: Concrete Campaign Statements and the Need to Clarify a Partisan Reputation
Journal: Journal of Politics

Overview: This replication package provides five different files (three data and two scripts) 
for reproducing all of the tables and analyses in the manuscript. Each variable in the data
files is described in the data. 

EL_JOP_RepDoFile.do: Script for reproducing all empirical models that use "EL_JOP_RepData.dta".
This includes all empirical models in the main text, Appendix B, and Appendix C.   

EL_JOP_RepData.dta: Data file for all of the models. Party-Election-level data include variables
that characterize the prior governing period and our own measure for manifesto concreteness. 
Variables for the prior governing period are a result of a merge between Seki & Williams (2014), 
"MPDataset_MPDS2015a.csv", and the Comparative Political Data set (Armingeon et al. 2015).
Manifesto Concreteness is generated using Perl 5.23. Manifestos are collected using ManifestoR
and PolDoc. The editable text is scaled using LIWC Dict 25 and Dict 26. The dictionaries are
proprietary and, thus, only available through <https://liwc.wpengine.com/>. 
Interested readers should contact the authors for information regarding the data generating process. 

EL_JOP_AppendixFile.R: Script for processing "EL_JOP_AppendixA1.dta" and "EL_JOP_AppendixA2.dta"
for reproducing the simulations and analyses in Appendix A. 

EL_JOP_AppendixA1.dta: Data file for reproducing the simulations and data analysis in Figure A1.
Respondent-level data with the number of correct classifications for the pairwise combinations. 
Data generation is described in the manuscript. Please contact the authors for the disaggregated 
(survey) data.  

EL_JOP_AppendixA2.dta: Data file for reproducing the simulations and data analysis in Figure A2.
Respondent-level data with the number of correct classifications for the sentence categorization. 
Data generation is described in the manuscript. Please contact the authors for the disaggregated
(survey) data.  

    